EMMS

EMMS, The Emacs Multimedia System.

EMMS is the Emacs Multimedia System. It tries to be a clean and small application to play multimedia files from Emacs using external players. Many of it's ideas are derived from MpthreePlayer , but it tries to be more general and cleaner.

The fact that EMMS is based on external players makes it powerful, because it supports all formats that those players support, with no effort from your side.

Usage

You can play a file or a directory with the command M-x emms-play-file or emms-play-directory.

You can add files and directories to the emms playlist (which will be created if it doesn't exist yet) with M-x emms-add-file, play it with emms-start and you can visit the playlist buffer by simply calling M-x emms RET. Hitting '?' in the playlist buffer will show you all the available shortcuts.

The function 'emms-get-lyrics-current-song' tries to get the lyrics
of the song that emms is currently playing [from http://www.lyricwiki.org/]. It currently requires
w3m to get the lyrics. It copies the lyrics to a file ending in
.lyrics; if the variable `emms-get-lyrics-use-files' is nil, it
will just display the lyrics in a buffer without saving them to a
file. If the variable `emms-get-lyrics-dir' is non-nil, then the
lyrics will be put in this directory with the file
ARTIST-TITLE.lyrics; otherwise it will be put in the same directory
as the song file, in a file with the same name as the song file
except the extension will by ".lyrics".

Usage

M-x mpg123

start mpg123, choose a directory or a mp3/ogg file and start listening. The buffer shows a complete list of commands.

1 --:--/--:-- Hurricane by Kyuss
0%--------------------------------------50%-------------------------------------100%
Volume: [N/A] Repeat: [--] Loop: [--]
mpg123:
W Show the real filename
g Go to current music line
SPC Play or pause
RET Play
m Mark position (when playing)
r Restart from marked position
w Where is the marked position
< <<
> >>
f Forward 1 sec
b Backward 1 sec
F Forward 10 sec
B Backard 10 sec
n Move to next line
p Move to previous line
g Go to current music line
- Volume down
+ Volume up
o Open other directory or playlist file
a Add other directory or playlist file
S Save current playlist to a file
i Increase repetition count
d Decrease repetition count (-1 for infinity)
L Increase current loop count
l Decrease current loop count. Also toggles between 0(no loop) and -1(always loop)
s Shuffle music list
D Delete music file
. Display playing position indicator
k Kill music line and push onto stack
y Yank music line from stack
I Intro-quiz mode ON/OFF (Stop at marked position)
q Quit
Q Quit without query
<down-mouse-2> Select a music directly on the mouse cursor
0..9 Digit argument (ex. 50V increase volume by 50steps)
----
The delimiter line "-------" is the indicator of currently playing position.
You may see the slider on the line running from left to right while the
music's going ahead. If you hit RET or <down-mouse-2> on the indicator line,
the music will immediately move to that position.

External links

Bongo

Bongo is a beautiful, flexible and usable buffer-oriented media player for Emacs, developed in parallel to EMMS 2.0. If you store your music collection locally and use structured file names, then Bongo is a great way for you to play music from within Emacs.

Notable features of Bongo include :

separate playlist and library buffers (each of which you may have any number — even zero of both is okay if you don’t need playlist functionality),

hierarchical buffers with collapsable sections for each artist and album,

familiar Emacs bindings for editing Bongo buffers (edit playlists much like you would regular text),

Installation

There is no el-get recipe for bongo (is there for MELPA in emacs24 ?). You have to install it from git. It is a 3 steps process :

go to where you want to put the sources :

cd ~/.emacs.d/your-extensions

retrieve the sources :

git clone git://github.com/dbrock/bongo.git

Add the Bongo directory to your ‘load-path’, and then run M-x load-library RET bongo RET. Here’s what you’ll want to put in your ~/.emacs:

;; Change this to the correct directory name for you.(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs/your-extensions/bongo")(autoload 'bongo "bongo""Start Bongo by switching to a Bongo buffer."t)

Usage

Run Bongo with (have a guess) M-x bongo and you'll be left with a quite explicit buffer. To learn more commands, please notice the menu entry and see the documentation at the project's page.

[here a nice Bongo logo]
Welcome to Bongo, the buffer-oriented media player!
This is a Bongo library buffer. It's empty now, but in a
few moments it could hold your entire media collection ---
or just the parts that you are currently interested in.
To insert local media files or directories, use `i'.
To insert the URL of a media file or stream, use `I u RET'.
To insert other things, use `I TAB' to list possibilities.
To enqueue tracks in the nearest playlist buffer, use `e'.
To hop to the nearest playlist buffer, use `h'.
Enabled backends: mpg123, mplayer, ogg123
To modify this list, customize `bongo-enabled-backends'.
Bongo is free software licensed under the GNU GPL.
Report bugs to <bongo-devel@nongnu.org>.

Basically, you're going to switch between a library buffer and a playlist buffer. You have to add tracks to the library, as indicated. Then you can start playing a track (enter). This adds the track on the playlist buffer. You can switch between buffers with h.

When on the library buffer, to add a track to the end of the playlist, press e. To add it at the beginning, press E.